Zhongkai Tao

I'm a graduate student at UC Berkeley. I am interested in microlocal analysis. My advisor is Maciej Zworski. My email is ztao@math.berkeley.edu. Here is my CV.

Research

  • The fractal uncertainty principle via Dolgopyat's method in higher dimensions, with Aidan Backus and James Leng.

  • Spectral asymptotics for kinetic Brownian motion on Riemannian manifolds, with Qiuyu Ren.

  • Localized initial data for Einstein equations, with Yuchen Mao.

  • Spectral asymptotics for kinetic Brownian motion on locally symmetric spaces, with Qiuyu Ren.

  • Flat trace estimates for Anosov flows, with Long Jin.

  • Exact control for Schrödinger equation on torus from small balls, Pure and Applied Analysis 3(2021), 387-401.

  • On 0-th order pseudodifferential operator on the circle, to appear in Proceedings of the AMS.

    • Talks

    Teaching

  • Spring 2022: Directed Reading Program with Troy Tsubota on differentiable manifolds.

  • Fall 2021: Math 53 Multivariable Calculus.

  • Spring 2021: Math 53 Multivariable Calculus.

  • Fall 2020: Directed Reading Program with Ayush Kamat on measure theory.

    Notes

  • Notes on random perturbation of non-self-adjoint operators, taken from the topics course in Spring 2021 taught by Maciej Zworski.

    • Seminar

  • Student seminar on fractal uncartainty principle.

  • I am co-organizing Harmonic Analysis and Differential Equations Seminar (HADES) with Yonah Borns-Weil and Izak Oltman from fall 2022.